Environment/Climate Portal - Through its partnerships with industry, government, and academia, NIST is helping to advance measurements and tools for environmental science, for example by calibrating the sensors of climate-mapping satellites and detecting ever more minute quantities of toxins and pollutants in our air, soil, water, and blood. [U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Various laboratories]

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Hope for Animals and Their Worlds - Webcast: Jane Goodall's presentation on her book, Hope for Animals and Their Worlds: How Endangered Animals are Being Rescued from the Brink. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

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International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) - Research on the sustainable use of forest resources, the rehabilitation of degraded lands, and the management and conservation of tropical forests, wildlife and watersheds [U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service]

Invasive Species - Provides methodologies and information to address threats to ecological systems and native species due to the introduction and spread of invasive species. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Ecosystems]

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Mapping Water Use from Space - Webcast - Webcast of a talk at the Library of Congress. Martha Anderson, PhD., talks about using images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on U.S. farms. It is used to measure evapotranspiration, the total amount of water used in the process of growing crops. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

My Winter in Greenland and Summer in Antarctica - Webcast at Library of Congress by Dr. Lora Koenig.,Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA, speaking about experiences spending months on the ice in challenging darkness, temperatures and winds. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

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NIST Data Gateway - The NIST Data Gateway-provides easy access to many (currently over 80) of the NIST scientific and technical databases. These databases cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. [U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Various laboratories]

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Renewable Energy and Wildlife - Brings together many fields of research to help managers, policymakers, industry, and others make decisions that allow for energy growth while responsibly lessening conflicts between renewable energy, ecosystems and wildlife. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Ecosystems]

Rio+20 - The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 20-22, 2012, to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic Rio Earth Summit. The official themes for Rio are the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and the institutional framework for sustainable development [U.S. Department of State]

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Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Maine Environments - Describes factors that control ecosystem structure, function, condition, and the provision of goods and services. This information is used to predict future changes to ecosystems and to describe the results of management alternatives. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Environments]

The Cheetah: A Race for Survival. Webcast - A Webcast of a presentation by Dr. Laurie Marker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, headquartered in the Republic of Namibia. [U.S. Library of Congress (LOC)]

Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge - Information about the protection of a remnant of the bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem along the Trinity River. [U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

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US Arctic Research Commission - The Arctic Research Policy Act of 1984 established USARC. Its principal duties are to develop and recommend an integrated national Arctic research policy and to assist in establishing a national Arctic research program plan to implement the policy. USARC Commissioners facilitate cooperation among the federal government, state and local governments, and other nations with respect to basic and applied Arctic research [Ad Hoc Organizations]

US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Laboratory - The Environmental Laboratory is the problem solver for the Corps and the Nation in environmental science and engineering research and development in support of environmental systems. [U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineer Research and Development Center]